Any number of catastrophes could befall Katie Spotz in the next three months. She knows them all, and will rattle off all the potential and likely issues that could arise when she's by herself, surrounded by the nothingness of the Atlantic Ocean…

This year, for the first time since 1943, there will be 10 Best Picture nominees at the Academy Awards. We'd rather pick who should be nominated, though. No wild left-field choices that have absolutely zero chance of scoring a nod; these are the 10 films we want to see compete..

Chicago radio personality Jonathan Brandmeier, who was let go November 30 by classic rock station WLUP, has struck back with a scathingly-profane video called Johnny B. The Unemployed Radio Mo Fo, in which he blasts his ex- bosses with gusto.

It was a fear fest of epic proportions. Magazine headlines predicted that the end of the world would shortly befall us. They told harrowing tales of feral computer systems going awry the minute the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2000--planes would fall from the sky, power grids would fail and the global economy would crash.

The planet orbits a red dwarf star 40 light-years from our Earth, and its surface may be covered in water. But scientists say conditions on this planet would probably be too extreme to support life as we know it on Earth.

The Wii had a good 2009, thanks to the arrival of Nintendo fan-pleasing releases like Punch-Out!! and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. But 2010 should one-up this year's showing thanks to Nintendo and third-party publishers.

Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarized by the comedian Bill Maher: "The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital."

James Cameron, who has served as an adviser to NASA to investigate a camera for a Mars mission, is known for taking the science in his flicks very seriously. So how did he do? Here we check on some of the movie's scientific bona fides with top researchers in their respective fields to see where artistic license and scientific plausibility meld.

Despite an official unemployment rate of 27 percent, the real jobs problem in Detroit may be affecting half of the working-age population, thousands of whom either can't find a job or are working fewer hours than they want. As much as 45 percent of the labor force has been affected by the downturn.

President Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire an underused state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects now held at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

White House emails reveal that top Bush Justice Department officials circulated a memo falsely blaming Al Gore for U.S. failure to get Osama bin Laden. The apocryphal story, already debunked on snopes.com, was forwarded internally to administration personnel by John Ashcroft's deputy chief of staff, David M. Israelite.

There is little doubt that the last ten years have been momentous for space science. For some of the most profound moments, here are the Discovery News choices for the Top 10 space stories of the decade.

Watch as Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright, the team behind Shaun of the Dead, hit the stage suited, booted and cracking so many jokes that the undead legions (lovely volunteers comprised of TF staff and friends) were breaking character and laughing so hard the photographer couldn't get a shot.